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Re:Pessimism about parallelism by mcguire on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @01:12PM (#18763564)
I believe games were one of ESR's special cases, which is highly parallelizable. On the other hand, most of the software in daily use isn't cpu bound on one core.
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Re:Pessimism about parallelism by gameswithgo on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @03:04PM (#18764431)
games is a special case, video editing is a special case, compiling code is a special case, running a development environment with a database, web application, and browser is a special case,

rendering a web page is a special case

lot of special cases!

I know for my day job software development machine the point of diminishing returns is definitely at 4 cores (or maybe more, haven't tried yet!) 2 cores is terrible.

However when I scale down and am NOT running two databases and a web server along with visual studio, then 2 cores is fine. Also when I do that I am making a game that makes effective use of all the cores, and it wasn't hard (granted it is another special case)

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